Evening Concert Presenters

John Toal, BBC International Competition, St. Columb’s Hall, Saturday 26 October,

19.30

Eoghan Doherty, JOE.ie Closing Gala Concert, St. Columb’s

Hall, Sunday 27 October, 19.30

John Toal’s musical career began when, aged five, he sang The Friendly Cow on stage at Newry Feis. He studied music at QUB before joining the BBC in 1989. He now presents ‘Classical Connections’ on Sunday afternoon and ‘The John Toal Show’ on Saturday mornings on BBC Radio Ulster and BBC Radio Foyle.

The John Toal Show was recently awarded Gold in the Magazine Programme category of the 2019 IMRO Radio Awards. Eoghan is Senior Creative on the award-winning website JOE.ie. Since joining JOE in 2013, Eoghan has overseen the development of the site into one of Ireland and the UK’s most prominent online publishers. He is an experienced TV and radio broadcaster, contributing to numerous productions on BBC, RTÉ, TV3, UTV and Today FM, as well as currently presenting and producing ‘The Big Reviewski’, Ireland’s number-one film and TV podcast.

A graduate of Music and English Literature from University College Dublin, Eoghan is an oboist, violinist and member of the acclaimed Derry-based chamber choir Codetta.